A MARIANNE MOORE READER
by Moore, Marianne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo, red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic reddish dust jacket (unclipped; price $6.95) with B&W photo of Marianne Moore wearing a tricorn & black cape,notes, index, xviii + 301 pages. Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972) was a major American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She won a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.<br/><br/>This Reader contains selections from her Collected Poems, Selected Essays, "Fables" of La Fontaine, Ford Letter, Other Prose, her Paris Review Interview with Donald Hall, and some new and uncollected poems.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR COPY: tight and clean without any annotations or marks by previous owners. Bright dust jacket (unclipped): spine slightly sunned; minor edgewear and traces of soil. Abbott A18.a1.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6654
- Title
- A MARIANNE MOORE READER
- Author
- Moore, Marianne
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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